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Ashley Johnson accepts her award for Young Businessperson of the Year.

Being named Young Businessperson of the Year, an awards program sponsored by the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and Louisiana Tech University College of Business, came as a surprise to Ashley Johnson, branch manager of Manpower in Ruston.

“Wow … That’s about all I could say,” Johnson said. “I am so honored to have been selected. It came as a total surprise since my office staff nominated me.”

A Natchitoches native, Johnson currently lives in Calhoun but commutes to Ruston every morning.

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